Aresearch.118 net.columbia utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ihnss!mhtsa!research!sjb Sat Oct 31 15:56:34 1981 early launch? Is it a bird? Is it the shuttle? No! It's an Air Force Titan 3C rocket carrying a secret satellite orbit-bound. At 0422 EST this morning, people around the Cape woke up to the sounds of the rocket and some called NASA and asked if the shuttle was launched early. The Air Force merely confirmed that it had launched the rocket, a practice it has followed for years. ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.